Crossword clues for budge
budge
- Yield slightly
- Stop being obstinate
- Move a bit
- Move slightly
- Stir slightly
- Move at all
- United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000)
- Tennis legend Don
- Give way
- Tennis champ, 1937–38
- U.S. tennis champ: 1937
- Shift gear initially, entering seaside resort
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Budge \Budge\ (b[u^]j), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Budged (b[u^]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Budging.] [F. bouger to stir, move (akin to Pr. bojar, bolegar, to stir, move, It. bulicare to boil, bubble), fr. L. bullire. See Boil, v. i.] To move off; to stir; to walk away.
I'll not budge an inch, boy.
--Shak.
The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge
From rascals worse than they.
--Shak.
Budge \Budge\, a. [See Budge, v.]
Brisk; stirring; jocund. [Obs.]
--South.
Budge \Budge\, n. [OE. bouge bag, OF. boge, bouge, fr. L. bulga a leathern bag or knapsack; a Gallic word; cf. OIr. bolc, Gael. bolg. Cf. Budge, n.] A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.
Budge \Budge\, a.
Lined with budge; hence, scholastic. ``Budge gowns.''
--Milton.-
Austere or stiff, like scholastics.
Those budge doctors of the stoic fur.
--Milton.Budge bachelor, one of a company of men clothed in long gowns lined with budge, who formerly accompanied the lord mayor of London in his inaugural procession.
Budge barrel (Mil.), a small copper-hooped barrel with only one head, the other end being closed by a piece of leather, which is drawn together with strings like a purse. It is used for carrying powder from the magazine to the battery, in siege or seacoast service.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Middle French bougier "to move, stir" (Modern French bouger), from Vulgar Latin *bullicare "to bubble, boil" (hence, "to be in motion"), from Latin bullire "to boil" (see boil (v.)). Compare Spanish bullir "to move about, bustle;" Portuguese bulir "to move a thing from its place." Related: Budged; budging.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
(context obsolete English) Brisk; stirring; jocund. alt. 1 (context intransitive English) To move. 2 (context transitive English) To move. 3 To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. 4 To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field. v
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1 (context intransitive English) To move. 2 (context transitive English) To move. 3 To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. 4 To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field. Etymology 2
a. (context obsolete English) austere or stiff, like scholastics n. A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Budge is a verb, meaning to move.
Budge can also refer to:
- Budge of court, free food and drink in a royal court
- Budgebudge, a city in the state of West Bengal, India
- Budge Hall, a building at Brigham Young University
People:
- Ann Budge, Scottish businesswoman
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Bill Budge, computer game programmer and designer
- BudgeCo, a company founded by Bill Budge
- E. A. Wallis Budge, English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist
- Edward Budge, English theologian and geologist
- Hamer H. Budge, American legislator and judge
- Paul Budge, British businessman, finance director of the Arcadia Group
- Richard Budge (1947–2016), British coal mining entrepreneur
- Budge Crawley, Canadian film producer
In sports:
- Don Budge, American tennis champion
- Grahame Budge, former Scotland rugby player
- Budge Patty, American tennis player
- Budge Pountney, former rugby player and director
- Budge Rogers, former England rugby player
Usage examples of "budge".
Polmont throws a load ay papers oaf the desk, n tries tae yank the phone oot by the socket, like they dae in the films, only the cunt disnae budge, once, twice.
While this victim of the Jesuits was being executed, I was several times obliged to turn away my face and to stop my ears as I heard his piercing shrieks, half of his body having been torn from him, but the Lambertini and the fat aunt did not budge an inch.
They all make a terrible fuss over their kit and their puggarees and their belongings, and refuse to budge without them.
I would not budge, he scrambled through the briery hedge and took me, whether I would or no, into his strenuous embrace.
The bars of the grate were as thick as arms, set deep into mortise holes and packed with burned lime: They did not budge under his bombardment.
They had rejoined Anna by this time and found her standing as though rooted to one spot, with an expression upon her face that seemed to say not all the powers of darkness and the Quartier Montparnasse combined should cause her to budge from it.
We had argued for nearly half an hour and by the time I had decided that there was no hope of budging him a shamal was blowing and I had to spend the night there.
In which struggle befell the most bloody fighting that was yet seen that day, and the stour of battle so asper and so mortal that it was hard to see how any man should come out from it with life, since not a man of either side would budge an inch but die there in his steps if he might not rather slay the foe before him.
Budge saw at once that it was an object of which the Museum had few examples, and that it was in a good state of preservation, and also an antica of considerable value.
But when Cora had seen that Sven was not to be budged, that he would leave with Ki forever, she had yielded graciously, recognized their agreement formally, and made her tribute to the Harpies in their honor.
Herr Hempel was trying to push him from the telescope, but he would not budge.
A retired quarter of a balcony was found, and the three of them, Budge and the two women, sat on chairs, while the native--a Parsi, by the way--squatted on the ground.
Budge, in strangely genial mood, was fussily preparing more delectable invalid dishes than a dozen convalescing Susies or well Robins could possibly eat.
I dragged her back and forth across the stones of her story for an hour, and she never budged from it.
But Kombo unslung his blanket, put down the tin billy and pint-pots, the tomahawk and pointed stick that he carried, and disposing of his properties in a corner, made it clear that not for all the Virgins nor the acolytes did he intend to budge.